May the Fourth Be With The All Skate

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The bar shifts, or it changed when no one was looking, and now resembles a certain cantina popular with the villainy and scum, as well as more upstanding folks. The air is dryer than usual, and a taste of grit and sand just hangs in the air. It just makes you want some blue milk doesn't it?

Has your character changed? Perhaps...who can tell? The Landlord I suppose but they aren't talking.

[ooc: HI and Welcome to a Star Wars themed All Skate, the best way to celebrate May the Fourth! Party style post. You do not have to interact with any of my characters to play.
The Rules are simple:
- This post, and any post with the subject heading ALL SKATE are open to everyone.
That means old characters, new characters, retired characters, doubles of characters, original characters, non-canon compliant characters.
- We will all play nice and adhere to Wheaton's Law: Don't be a dick.
- Gratuitous behavior, either of a violent or sexual nature, will not be tolerated in the Comm. Take that to an OOM, and then Content Warning the hell out of it before you link it.
- Communication is paramount. Everyone's keyed up, let's just have some fun.]

Comments

[acertainpov]

Well done, Ibani. You're learning (terrible lessons)

"And what do you do now you're no longer in training?"

[last_kallig]

Ibani has learned a lot of terrible lessons! From a certain point of view, her entire time on Korriban was one terrible lesson after another.

"I'll be administering part of the Sphere of Ancient Knowledge, probably a portion of the Imperial Reclamation Service, the non-Force sensitives who deal with finding and exploring both ancient Sith ruins and other such places of interest."

She takes a sip of her tea. "Although I'm sure there will be other duties tacked on to that from time to time, especially with the War going hot again. Hopefully they won't be sending me in to break Republic bases, but I'm not going to hold my breath on that."

[acertainpov]

"Hopefully at least the first part of that will lead to fewer attempts on your life."

[last_kallig]

"It should," Ibani says after a moment's thought. "Most non-Force sensitive Imperials wouldn't even THINK of trying to kill a Sith, and I'm not important enough to be a target for other Sith."

Ibani's smile turns darkly wry. "Not that we're allowed to murder each other, officially." The trick of course, is getting away with it.

[acertainpov]

"Oh well," says Obi-Wan. "Officially you're probaby fine, then."

[last_kallig]

"So long as I'm careful about 'accidents', yes," Ibani replies. "Or getting volunteered to the do the impossible. Again."

"Care to spar?"

[acertainpov]

Obi-Wan smiles at her. "I thought you'd never ask," he says, and in one draft, he finishes the tea in front of him.

"Shall we?"

[last_kallig]

Ibani grins. "I left some training lightsabers with Bar, unless you can adjust the one you're carrying for that?" Training lightsabers sting when they hit and can leave a welt with too much contact, but they won't maim people like a 'normal' lightsaber.

"Thank you, Bar," Ibani says as three lightsabers appear on Her surface.

[acertainpov]

"It's been a while since I used one of these," Obi-Wan says. He holds his hand over the three handles, chooses the one that calls to him most strongly, and extends the blade to get a feel.

It's been a while since he did any sparring, to be honest.

[last_kallig]

The lightsabers are the same in hilt design, though two are yellow and one green.

"I'd never seen one until I came here," Ibani replies. "We used Sith warblades on Korriban, which were metal."

Ibani hasn't sparred recently, but she fights Force users for real with great regularity. Such conflicts are a GIVEN for Jedi and Sith alike, and they are trained with that in mind.

[acertainpov]

It is the green that Obi-Wan has chosen, and he likes the feel of it, although it's lighter than his own blue saber.

He also is more experienced in fighting other orce users than he's like to be, given his peacekeeper title, but at least it's fun.

He smiles warmly at her and steps aside, opening his body up to clear a path to the back door.

"After you."

[last_kallig]

Ibani grabs the two yellow sabers and smiles.

"Why, thank you," she replies as he steps aside. Once they're through the door to the Outside, Ibani looks for a large, open area. The amount of ground two sparring Force users can cover is....considerable, especially when one of them favors the more aggressive lightsaber forms.

"Over there will do, I think," Ibani says, gesturing toward an area near the lake shore.

She grins excitedly at him as she activates both of her training sabers, yellow blades humming to life with a distinctive snap-hiss sound. She swings them once or twice to get a feel. "Ready when you are."

[acertainpov]

Obi-Wan's so used to fighting where he is, it doesn't ocur to him to find a space. But he follows her calmly, allowing himself a small smile at her excitedness. A Jedi just wouldn't hodl themselves like this, and honestly it's kind of refreshing.

He had his lightsaber inactive for the walk down. Now he holds it up in front of him, activates it again, and holds it straight in front of his face to bow to her as a formal start.

Then he draws a foot back, and holds his saber up defensively. Always ready to let the other be the aggressor.

[last_kallig]

Ibani mirrors his bow with her own lightsabers.

Ibani is still excited, but there is a feel of focus in the Force as well.

She's happy to oblige him by being the aggressor in this first exchange. She draws the Force into her body, enhancing her speed, and moves into a spin, two yellow blades slashing out a him. She doesn't really expect to hit him with this exchange, more get a feel for how fast he is and how he prefers to fight.

[acertainpov]

Obi-Wan turns out to be very fast indeed. Or at least, very tuned into the Force in the way that allows near-lightning fast reflexes, fast even for a Jedi. He leaps lightly to the side, raising his blade only enough to deflect hers where his dodge isn't quite far enough. And with that momentum he counters immediately, jumping at her, with his saber swinging from the side.

[last_kallig]

Ibani uses both her sabers to block, impressed with his speed.

She grins, wickedly playful, and summons a small whirlwind of purple power around him from up out of the ground. It won't hurt him, but he will be spinning around and around for a while until he manages to break out of it.

[acertainpov]

Well, that's new.

Best way for him too get out of that, he assumes? Force-jump directly up and back, somersaulting backwards to get some distance between himself and the little tornado she's created.

He's grinning when he lands.

"That's a neat little trick."

[last_kallig]

"Thank you," Ibani says sincerely. "Care to see another?"

And then Ibani vanishes utterly from both physical senses and the Force. It's as if she's popped out of existence! When she said she was handy with a force cloak she wasn't kidding. At this level the technique even works on sensors and droids, things without brains.

[acertainpov]

Oh. Oh now that's interesting. Obi-Wan is better than most at disgusing his force presence. But this...

He stops smiling only because the expression is fading into concentration, and he raises his lightsaber, closes his eyes, and feels.

He never cared much for physical senses anyway.

[last_kallig]

Ibani may be something of a freakish prodigy when it comes to force cloaks.

Merely 'removing' your Force presence leaves a 'hole' where something 'should' be that can be detected if you know what you're looking for. Ibani is good enough to 'match' the background feel of the Force as well as bending light, sound, and other sensory input. It takes a lot of mental effort though, and it won't hold if you make contact with anything.

She sneaks around behind him and goes "Boo!" directly in his ear, mouth barely an inch away from it. At that moment, the force cloak shatters and she's suddenly THERE to all of his senses.

(She's almost certainly going to get whacked for that, but it will have been worth it!)

[acertainpov]

A lesser man would jump, or scream or something.

Obi-Wan just spins around, fast and alert and on the aggressive, his lightsaber flashing around to her midsection.

Not just whacked, if these weren't training lightsabers he'd probably bissect her right now.

[last_kallig]

He would indeed have cut her in half! Of course, if this was for REAL, she could have stabbed him through the heart or taken off his head instead of shouting in his ear.

She rolls backwards, the lightsaber blow stinging like nobody's business. "Good reflexes, " she acknowledges, still smiling. She circles him for a bit, not rushing to make another attack.

[acertainpov]

Obi-Wan's smiling as well, now the shock of having someone shout in his ear has subsided.A faint, half-mouth twitching smile, but it's definitely there.

"Not as impressive as you, I fear."

But if he's going to have the speed advantage, he needs to press it, rushing forward, but at the last second changing his attack, jumping up at a tremendous height in order to bear down on her from above.

[last_kallig]

Ibani steps backwards while forming a shield like she did earlier as a demonstration, but this time at sufficient speed that it is solid in time to block the blow.

She forms another half shield under his feet, leaving him suddenly without traction.

[acertainpov]

Ah, but he's familiar with this now, from earlier when she told him enough to prepare him. Obi-Wan lets the lack of friction work for him as he lands, and slides along the shield, keeping his saber bearing down on the harder surface of her defensive shield.

Who needs traction when you have the Force?